HOUSEHOLD BINDER

    It has always been my dream to have the June Cleaver kind of house. Where everything is perfectly clean, organized and running so smoothly.  Well reality comes running in, often in the form of children or animals in my case.  I tend to get UN-organized really quickly. I often have several projects going on at one time and am forever multitasking.  With having two special needs children, a Husband, dogs, cats and extended family it often falls to me to make it all work. Which I gladly take on this responsibility as it is my job as “Mom, Wife, Owner etc” to make sure my family is happy-mostly, healthy and functioning -reasonably well.

    I have searched online for various resources to help me find what exactly I need to go into this binder.  Well I keep taking bits and pieces from every place that I visit. Each person’s binder really needs to be a personal thing. No two families are alike which makes for very different needs.  I am currently working on what sections I feel we need to have easy access too.
   
    I have created a section for each family member. In the section is any medications that they are on first and foremost. Along with any pertinent  medical information, with Doctors names, numbers etc. Then a section on the dogs and cats with their shot records, medical information and veterinarian information.

    We are also on a mission to seriously become debt free-or as close to it as possible while raising our credit scores to be able to afford a place with more land in the future.  To accomplish that I have created a very strict spending plan and budget.  There is a whole section on that in the binder. That way I can open it up and see for the whole month, who is paid what, and what we are spending.  I have also gotten a small notepad that I carry with me with that weeks spending plan on it so I can see if I have the extra money to buy something when I come across a great deal. 

    Now I have also made a section for: Gardening, Shopping, Pantry Staples.  This is very much a work in progress that I am very sure will change constantly as our needs change.